Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN LAMPLIGHT, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG


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IN LAMPLIGHT, by                    
First Line: Now that the chill october day is declining
Last Line: Eyes grow dim, the book on your lap unheeded.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


NOW that the chill October day is declining,
Pull the blinds, draw each voluminous curtain
Till the room is full of gloom and of the uncertain
Gleams of firelight on polished edges shining.
Then bring the rosy lamp to its wonted station
On the dark-gleaming table. In that soft splendour
Well-known things of the room, grown deep and tender,
Gather around, a mysterious congregation:—
Pallid sheen of silver, the bright brass fender,
The wine-red pool of carpet, the bowl of roses
Lustrous-hearted, crimsons and purples looming
From dusky rugs and curtains. Nothing discloses
The unseen walls but the broken, richly-glooming
Gold of frames and opulent wells of mingling
Dim colours gathered in darkened mirrors. And breaking
The dreamlike spell and out of your deep chair moving
You go, perhaps, to the shelves and, slowly singling
Some old rich-blazoned book, return. But the gleaming
Spells close round you again and you fall to dreaming,
Eyes grow dim, the book on your lap unheeded.





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